Instructions: Add whatever you want to Strategies, Activities, Informal Assessment and Formal Assessment. Start by clicking "edit page" and then it is like a word processor. If you want to change the wording of what has been already written, treat it like your own text and change it. That is, if you have a more explicit way of saying something, or want to add more and change the wording, just do so. We will be able to track what has been changed, so we can discuss any discrepancies (let's not worry about "hurt feelings" here--this is academic meaning negotiation, and important for critical thinking!!). When you add something, put your initials in parentheses () behind it. That will help us to negotiate meaning.
Reading Strategies
Making connections to prior knowledge/schema
Understanding text structrue - different genres, fiction/nonfiction
Literary analysis - identifying conflict, foreshadowing, mood, tone, imagery, symbolism
Critical Literacy and understanding the author's social purpose
Identify propaganda techniques - neame calling, implication by assiciation, etc.
Predictions
Mental Imagery
Affective and Aesthetic Response
High level thinking
application
analysis
synthesis
critical literacy
Inferences
Word connotations
Deep structure w/in sentence
Inter-sentence connections
Activities
Art activities which involve the students understanding of mental images:draiwings,collage, postersm paintings, mobiles, & sculptures
Going on a "picture walk" and pre-reading activities to make predictions.
Discussions to activate prior knowledge about information in a text.
Various response activities which involve getting to know the characters more in-depth
Have children tell the story/paragraph in their own words
Look at connective words that signal dependence on another part
Explicit instruction of inferences - teacher models
Lessons with figurative language - poetry
Creative writing response - write a letter to the main character
Analyzing magazines, newspapers, commercials and identifying propaganda techniques
Taking perspective in historical events - writing from the perspective of various individuals and comparing the different perspectives
Create a T chart with "what the author says" and "what it means" (a.p.)
Use cartoons (a.p.)
Photo collage activity (jac)
Use simple, familiar stories like fairy tales to teach about intersentence inferences (jac)
Keep chart of predicitons in response journal (jac)
Write a story and omit the final section- ask classmates to predict the ending (jac)
Drama activities: act out individual scenes, expressions on a character's face, use simple props
Coffeehouses
Choose Your Position in Irwin (jac)
Using mirror questions (Irwin, 31) (jac)
Informal Assessment
QAR
Higher level questions that ask students to sum up what the writer is saying
Response Journals
Character Journals
Reading POETRY, responding
Directed Reading-Thinking Activity (DRTA)
Observation in peer and group discussions
Conferring with student (a.p.)
reader-understanding buddy to check inferences (jac)
Assessing performances (jac)
Formal Assessment
Higher level questions that ask students to draw conclusions from text
Essays which reflect the student's understanding of a specific strategy
Reading Strategies
Making connections to prior knowledge/schemaUnderstanding text structrue - different genres, fiction/nonfiction
Literary analysis - identifying conflict, foreshadowing, mood, tone, imagery, symbolism
Critical Literacy and understanding the author's social purpose
Identify propaganda techniques - neame calling, implication by assiciation, etc.
Activities
Art activities which involve the students understanding of mental images:draiwings,collage, postersm paintings, mobiles, & sculpturesGoing on a "picture walk" and pre-reading activities to make predictions.
Discussions to activate prior knowledge about information in a text.
Various response activities which involve getting to know the characters more in-depth
Have children tell the story/paragraph in their own words
Look at connective words that signal dependence on another part
Explicit instruction of inferences - teacher models
Lessons with figurative language - poetry
Creative writing response - write a letter to the main character
Analyzing magazines, newspapers, commercials and identifying propaganda techniques
Taking perspective in historical events - writing from the perspective of various individuals and comparing the different perspectives
Create a T chart with "what the author says" and "what it means" (a.p.)
Use cartoons (a.p.)
Photo collage activity (jac)
Use simple, familiar stories like fairy tales to teach about intersentence inferences (jac)
Keep chart of predicitons in response journal (jac)
Write a story and omit the final section- ask classmates to predict the ending (jac)
Drama activities: act out individual scenes, expressions on a character's face, use simple props
Coffeehouses
Choose Your Position in Irwin (jac)
Using mirror questions (Irwin, 31) (jac)
Informal Assessment
QARHigher level questions that ask students to sum up what the writer is saying
Response Journals
Character Journals
Reading POETRY, responding
Directed Reading-Thinking Activity (DRTA)
Observation in peer and group discussions
Conferring with student (a.p.)
reader-understanding buddy to check inferences (jac)
Assessing performances (jac)
Formal Assessment
Higher level questions that ask students to draw conclusions from textEssays which reflect the student's understanding of a specific strategy